WILD THINGS HAPPEN ON MARS!
Ice Spiders, Swiss cheese terrain & Spiral shaped lava tubes: Does it say anything to you? Absolutely not, if you’re not into Red Planet. These strange objects were discovered within […]
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Solar-powered, spinach-growing Mars Greenhouse
With the landing of the Mars Rover and that job ad for a one way trip to Mars, many feel we’re closer than ever to stepping foot on Mars and establishing a colony […]
Amazing pics of every planet in our solar system
Each and every planet, and one dwarf planet, in our solar system, represented with the single best image ever taken of it. Say hello to our neighbors. Mercury Venus Mars […]
A comet may hit Mars in 2014
The Comet Siding Spring, an estimated eight to 50 kilometers in diameter, is apparently on course to have an exceedingly close call with the planet Mars in October 2014 and may even collide with […]
Curiosity prepares to drill into rocks that were once saturated with water
NASA’s Curiosity rover has explored a new area on Mars called Yellowknife Bay. Yellowknife Bay shows plenty of evidence of flowing water since it was basically an ancient riverbed. And now, the rover is […]
Astronauts Needed for Mars Colony
Do you look at the night sky and wish you had an opportunity to live on another planet? Do you have Curiosity’s naked pictures all over your bedroom wall? Well, […]
Radiation levels on Mars are safe for humans
Curiosity is up (down?) there for three months now, and the space agency have some good news about radiation levels on the Red Planet. Preliminary data collected using the rover’s Radiation Assessment Detector […]
Curiosity finds strange, bright objects in Martian soil
Last week, Curiosity saw a bright object on Mars soil which turned out to be plastic that fell from the probe. But now NASA’s skilled rover took three scoops from […]
Curiosity finds ancient streambed on Mars
Less than two months into its mission, Curiosity found evidence of an ancient streambed on Mars that once had “vigorous” water flow. The evidence came in the form of an outcropping of […]
Curiosity could be contaminated with Earth bacteria, threatening search for Mars life
NASA officials may be saying this over and over these days; “Please don’t find water.” When searching for life on another world, the most fundamental precaution that any space agency […]
